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Montgomery County Crime Statistics Pennsylvania state

In the year 2007 there were a total of 18,123 crimes in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. With a population of 779,431, there was 1 crime for every 43.0 people in the county. Out of the 18,123 crimes reported, 16,547 were crimes against property (burglery, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson) and 1,576 were violent crimes (murder, rape, aggravated assault, and robbery).

2007 Crime Statistics
Crime	Reported	Crime Rate*
Murder	10	1.28
Rape	113	14.50
Robbery	578	74.16
Assault	875	112.26
Burglary	2,328	298.68
Larceny	13,219	1695.98
Vehicle	990	127.02
Arson	10	1.3

The 2007 crime rate was 2,325.2 incidents per 100,000 people. A 2.2% change in the total crime rate from 2006 (2,275.7 incidents). There were 202.2 violent crimes reported per 100,000 people resulting in a -10.3% change (from 225.6 incidents). Property crimes changed 3.6% from (2,050.1) the previous year to 2,123.0 per 100,000 people.

Montgomery County ranks #37 for violent crimes and #47 for crimes against property in the state. While it ranks #1,362 and #1,580 for violent and property related offenses respectively in the nation.

A snapshot of the most current crime statistics are shown in the chart to the left and historical criminal data is shown in the charts below.

Montgomery County Criminal Records
Montgomery County Jails

Year	Murder	Murder Rate*	Rape	Rape Rate*	Robbery	Robbery Rate*	Agg. Assault	Agg. Asslt Rate*
2006	14	1.8	115	14.8	626	80.4	1,002	128.7
2005	18	2.3	113	14.5	640	82.3	1,029	132.3
2004	9	1.2	126	16.2	502	64.7	900	116.1
2003	13	1.7	133	17.3	468	60.7	838	108.7
2002	19	2.5	112	14.8	496	65.6	810	107.2
2001	15	2.0	119	15.8	546	72.5	827	109.9
2000	10	1.3	94	12.5	527	70.1	877	116.6
1999	7	1.0	82	11.4	502	69.6	911	126.3
1998	17	2.4	118	16.6	530	74.4	910	127.7
1997	18	2.6	118	16.9	568	81.2	1,092	156.1
1996	15	2.1	117	16.7	551	78.5	1,079	153.8
1995	11	1.6	98	13.9	474	67.5	1,082	154.0
1994	11	1.6	84	12.1	488	70.3	1,023	147.3

Year	Burglary	Burglary Rate*	Larceny	Larceny Rate*	Vehicle Theft	Vhcl Theft Rate*	Arson	Arson Rate*
2006	2,277	292.4	12,643	1623.5	1,033	132.6	12	1.5
2005	2,003	257.6	12,087	1554.2	1,012	130.1	12	1.5
2004	2,328	300.2	12,069	1556.3	1,158	149.3	9	1.2
2003	2,229	289.2	11,676	1515.2	1,109	143.9	10	1.3
2002	2,164	286.4	11,049	1462.2	1,206	159.6	10	1.3
2001	2,245	298.3	12,699	1687.2	1,539	204.5	11	1.5
2000	2,338	310.8	13,371	1777.3	1,505	200.1	7	0.9
1999	2,292	317.9	13,666	1895.3	1,654	229.4	10	1.4
1998	2,687	377.1	14,876	2088.0	2,098	294.5	10	1.4
1997	3,042	434.9	16,916	2418.2	2,558	365.7	7	1.0
1996	2,917	415.7	16,872	2404.6	3,032	432.1	7	1.0
1995	2,936	417.9	15,633	2225.0	2,864	407.6	8	1.1
1994	2,953	425.3	13,312	1917.3	2,620	377.3	10	1.4

*Crime Rate is based on number of reported cases per 100,000 population